http://www.sipeaa.it/tools CRA (ISCI-Agronomy), in cooperation with other institutions develops and maintains software and component tools for Agrometeorology and Agricultural Modelling. The component tools include sample applications inclusive of source code. en-us http://www.sipeaa.it/images/cra_88x32.gif http://www.sipeaa.it/tools http://www.sipeaa.it/ASP/ASP2/AgroManagement.asp AgroManagement is a component to implement agricultural management is simulation systems. It uses an approach based on rules and impacts to mimic farmer's decisions based on state of the sytem constraints, and physical charateristics of the system. The component is extensible. Marcello Donatelli m.donatelli@isci.it, Andrea Di Guardo model components 2006-04-06 http://www.sipeaa.it/ASP/ASP2/AirT.asp AirT is a cross-platform component containing routines to generate daily and hourly values of air temperature, according to alternative approaches. The component can be freely used and distributed by modellers and developers in their own applications. The component design allows for expansions by the users who can add their own models. Marcello Donatelli m.donatelli@isci.it, Gianni Bellocchi, Laura Carlini model components 2005-08-26 http://www.sipeaa.it/ASP/ASP2/ET.asp ET is a cross-platform component containing routines to estimate daily and hourly values of evapotranspiration from the reference surface, according to alternative approaches. The component can be freely used and distributed by modellers and developers in their own applications. The component design allows for expansions by the users who can add their own models. Marcello Donatelli m.donatelli@isci.it, Gianni Bellocchi, Laura Carlini, Michele Colauzzi model components 2005-08-26 http://www.sipeaa.it/ASP/ASP2/GSRad.asp The CRA.clima.gsrad assemblies are a free component containing routines to calculate daily and hourly values of extra-terrestrial and ground-level global solar radiation. The latter is both generated using a statistical approach or estimated by means of physical relationships between solar radiation and other weather variables. Clear sky transmissivity is estimated according to alternative approaches. Provisions are supplied to have ground-level global solar radiation partitioned into direct, diffuse, and reflected components. Methods are also implemented to extract slope and aspect parameters from elevation data. Marcello Donatelli m.donatelli@isci.it, Laura Carlini, Gianni Bellocchi model components 2005-08-26 http://www.sipeaa.it/ASP/ASP2/Rain.asp The CRA.clima.rain assemblies are a free component containing routines to generate rainfall. Alternative approaches are available to generate daily precipitation data, all of them assessing the likelihood of both the occurrence of precipitation on a particular day as well as the daily amount. Options for generating storm duration or breakpoint precipitation in either 360- 180-, 90-, 60-, 30- or 10-minute intervals are also available via sub-daily generation methods. Laura Carlini l.carlini@isci.it, Gianni Bellocchi, Marcello Donatelli model components 2005-08-26 http://www.sipeaa.it/ASP/ASP2/Wind.asp Wind is a cross-platform component containing routines to generate daily and hourly values of wind speed, according to alternative approaches. The component can be freely used and distributed by modellers and developers in their own applications. The component design allows for expansions by the users who can add their own models. Marcello Donatelli m.donatelli@isci.it, Gianni Bellocchi, Laura Carlini model components 2005-08-26 http://www.sipeaa.it/ASP/ASP2/MCE.asp The Model Component Explorer (MCE) is a small, easy to use, windows application to discover domain classes (data and VarInfo types) in interfaces assemblies, and strategies (and relevant parameters, inputs, and outputs) in model component strategies. The application also allows to discover the relevant strategies once an output is selected. Marcello Donatelli m.donatelli@isci.it, Laura Carlini model components 2005-08-26 http://www.sipeaa.it/ASP/ASP2/Preconditions.asp The CRA.core.preconditions assembly/package is a free component developed to make numeric tests of pre-conditions and post-conditions in clients of different types. This component was developed having as main target software components implementing agro-ecological models. The component provides some output options for showing/storing tests results (screen, txt file, XML file), but its design also allows clients to easily define custom outputs. Marcello Donatelli m.donatelli@isci.it, Gianni Bellocchi, Laura Carlini model components 2005-08-26